Previous campaigns

Prison & Migration

As we work to decarcerate our state, we’re also pushing for police accountability. In June 2018, unarmed, Black 17-year old Antwon Rose II was shot in the back and killed by East Pittsburgh police. In response, we’ve organized rapid response trainings and taken the streets in the 1000s to demand justice for Antwon. In April 2019, we held a day of action in 30 locations, where we demanded that our legislators support bills that would limit police ability to use lethal force.  

We need a Clean Dream Act, which would protect immigrant youth without increasing funding for the border wall or harming other immigrants. We need to shut down the Berks Family Detention Center, one of just 3 such centers in the country. We fight in solidarity with the #ShutDownBerks Coalition.

Free COllege & Econ Justice

College for All means that education is a right that should be available to everyone, regardless of immigration status, age, income, or record of incarceration. College for All means that college should be tuition-free, but it goes beyond tuition—it means advancing reforms to improve affordability and accessibility for all students, including higher wages for student workers, protections for vulnerable student populations, and financial support for housing, food, childcare, and other costs of attendance. For more, go to collegeforallpa.org. 

Enviro HealthJustice & Gentrification

Youth and communities across PA deserve environments where we can thrive! We as a collective, recognize that the machines of gentrification, and the apartied-state healthcare system are used to keep our black and brown communities in survival mode. Those machines are cultural pollutants upon our environment and way of life.

Youth recognize that students are used in the machine of whitecollar lead gentrification. Our tuitions feed the largest non profits in our state. Who in turn engage in gentrifying landgrabs to increase their own relevancy. We watch as our air is poisoned by natural energy corporations which often fund these same non profits.

We know that these challenges are intersectional. We as a collective are working towards finding out our role in this fight to protect our right to thrive and breathe freely; with sound bodies and a place to rest and dream.

Workers rights & Disability

Following the work of the Harriet Tubman Collective, we are similarly mobilizing in solidarity with Disability justice movements, targeting the Polk and White Haven PA State Centers. We recognize that blackness and disability are both demonized in our society; and workers rights are pitted against the rights of those with disabilities. We work as accomplices to deauthorize these constructs and their manifestations in our communities